Gorgo

Gorgo (518 BC-) was the Queen of Sparta and the wife of Leonidas I.

Biography
Gorgo was the daughter of Cleomenes I, and she married her father's half-brother Leonidas I, bearing him one son, Pleistarchus. In 480 BC, she played an instrumental role in Sparta's preparation for the Greco-Persian Wars, removing wax from a tablet smuggled to Greece by an exile in Persia and discovering that Xerxes I was preparing to invade Greece. Gorgo was politically involved in the war effort after her husbands' death at the Battle of Thermopylae, forming a reluctant alliance between oligarchic Sparta and democratic Athens after negotiating with Themistocles.